Devil's Grasp bug - cannot complete

[Tziva]

I'm having an issue where I cannot complete the Devil's Grasp rebel camp. I am stuck on the "Search the Command Center" step. Everything, including the leader and any roving machines outside, is dead. I looted the focus from the fallen leader. I scanned the three items in this area. Aloy picked up a follow-up quest and her voice line indicated we were done here, but the zone is still prompting me to search the command centre and I don't have completion credit.

I can't fast travel or use campfires. I really do not want to reload an old save because this camp took me a long time to do and there's no guarantee it will work the second time!

All I can find is something in the patch notes from 2022 stating this bug was fixed, and people from before that date talking about experiencing it. I can't find anything recent on it.

Am I missing something or did the bug somehow return in the PC port?

[Kosevich]

Completed Devil's Grasp just yesterday. All work pretty good.
Objectives comes to
- Infiltrate the base
- raise alarm (gates to fortified section of the base closing)
- kill all machine riders
- stealth kill all other targets
- raise the gate to fortified section
- kill 3 remaining leaders (gunner, operator and sniper)
- grab a focus from sniper body
- destroy remaining equipment in the camp

P.S. Playing Steam version of the game.
Intel i7-12700kf
Nvidia Asus Rog Strix 3080ti
32gb Ram DDR4 3200mhz cl-14

[Tziva]

I believe I've done all these except I'm unsure on "raise alarm." I'm not quite sure I understand what you're describing there, but I did receive the followup quest after looting the focus from the Sniper, and it sounds like the "Search the Command Center" is one of the later steps, so it seems like something I probably completed.

Everything dead including leaders, gate raised, focus looted, stockpiles shot and looted, and the big override machine destroyed. Examined the override module, workbench, and parchment plans in the command centre. When I couldn't get completion credit, I took the focus back to base, examined it, and talked to Sylens even.

I can go back and check on the raise alarm bit though if you can clarify what you mean on that.

[Kosevich]

Publicado originalmente por Tziva:

I believe I've done all these except I'm unsure on "raise alarm." I'm not quite sure I understand what you're describing there,

I can go back and check on the raise alarm bit though if you can clarify what you mean on that.

The gates are open by default until you are spotted and raised alarmed status (red indicator) on any rebel in the camp. Alarm will close the gate leading to fortified section of the base.
Even of you open it manually and again raise alarm - the gate will close again and forse you to open it again (roll the wheel near gate).

In you case you definitely need to roll back your save game.

[Tziva]

ah okay, then I definitely did that step since not all of my kills were stealth kills.

[Tziva]

welp redid the whole thing and it happened again on the same step. I'm not doing anything weird when I do the camp; the same thing I do at every camp, and I've cleared all but three of them now. (Kill all the dudes, kill the leader(s), destroy any weapons, and complete whatever other objectives pop up on the screen)

Does anyone know what caused the original bug so I can avoid doing whatever it is?

[Faster With Feeling]

Publicado originalmente por Tziva:

I'm having an issue where I cannot complete the Devil's Grasp rebel camp. I am stuck on the "Search the Command Center" step. Everything, including the leader and any roving machines outside, is dead. I looted the focus from the fallen leader. I scanned the three items in this area. Aloy picked up a follow-up quest and her voice line indicated we were done here, but the zone is still prompting me to search the command centre and I don't have completion credit.

I can't fast travel or use campfires. I really do not want to reload an old save because this camp took me a long time to do and there's no guarantee it will work the second time!

All I can find is something in the patch notes from 2022 stating this bug was fixed, and people from before that date talking about experiencing it. I can't find anything recent on it.

Am I missing something or did the bug somehow return in the PC port?

Where on the map is Devil's Grasp?

I want to clear out all the camps before doing the DLC

[Tziva]

Publicado originalmente por Banana Fritter Muffin:

Where on the map is Devil's Grasp?

I want to clear out all the camps before doing the DLC

Southwest of Las Vegas at the very bottom of that desert section of the map that sticks out a bit. Save right before you do it, in case! I suspect the bug isn't effecting a ton of people since literally everything I turned up when searching was from 2022 or before, but something can obviously trigger it because I've done it twice now :(

It's just annoying, because it's one of the bigger camps, too, so it takes awhile to do.

[Tellic]

I've just had this bug which is pretty frustrating. I re-loaded a save and thought I'd have at least one go at completing it.

Luckily, it completed on my second try.

I can only think of 2 things that were different between the bugged playthrough, and the bug-free playthrough:
1.) On the bugged playthrough, I destroyed the Override Station BEFORE going in to Center and killing, looting and scanning
2.) On the bugged playthrough, I didn't open the gates - there is a way to drop in from and pull cast out again on one side (I think the Northern side)

So, what worked for me was to:
- kill all opposition
- * then OPEN THE GATES to the center
- kill the 3 remaining inside the center
- loot the sniper
- scan the 3 scannable bits (only 2 lit up as purple - the workbench doesn't light up and can not be interacted with - but it is scannable)
- * then DESTROY THE OVERRIDE STATION outside the center

... then I got my XP, Skill Points, and completion notification and could use the camp fire.

[joridiculous]

Had no issues with this one. Cant say i ever opened any gates?
I entered the base from behind, killing the 3 Sons of Prometheus back there first, then picked the rest off more or less quietly. Looted leaders (i guess), then blew the control centre up.

[Faster With Feeling]

I used the sunwing and dropped in from the sky no gates to worry about. Got em all

[ChopShop]

This is annoying. This bug is still not fixed. The problem is the way that the Devs decided to write the quests. They basically make you follow an unspecified order of events. Failing to follow the events in the specific order break the quests, or make them extremely difficult to complete because the quest has progressed past that point. This was a poor decision for an open world game. It's like the quest writer thought the game was linear. This type of quest progression is not suited for this type of game and is normally avoided. The broken quests and the terrible melee combat & fighting pit make me think that this isn't the same team who made the original Horizon: Zero Dawn.